SSC2015
1-5 June 2015
Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study, South Africa
published August 05, 2016
Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study, South Africa
published August 05, 2016
The Southern African Large Telescope (SALT) has seen great changes in the last years following the beginning of full time science operations in 2011. The three first generation instruments, namely the SALTICAM imager, the Robert Stobie Spectrograph (RSS) and its multiple modes and finally in 2014, the new High Resolution Spectrograph (HRS), have commissioned it. The SALT community now eagerly anticipate the installation and commissioning of the near-infrared arm of RSS, likely to commence in 2016.
The the third "Science with SALT" conference was held at the Stellenbosch Institute of Advanced Study from 1-5 June 2015. The goals of this conference were to:
-Present and discuss recent results from SALT observations;
-Anticipate scientific programs that will be carried out with new SALT instrumentation such as RSS-NIR;
-Provide a scientific environment in which to foster inter-institutional and inter-facility collaborations between scientists at the different SALT partners;
-Provide an opportunity for students and postdocs to become more engaged in SALT science and operations;
-Encourage the scientific strategic planning that will be necessary to insure an important role for SALT in an era of large astronomical facilities in the southern hemisphere such as MeerKAT, the SKA, LSST, and ALMA;
-Consider options for future instrumentation and technical development of SALT; and,
-Present, discuss, and engage in the SALT Collateral Benefits program led by SAAO.
Conference proceedings editors: David Buckley and Anja Schroeder
| Janusz Kaluzny, Session 1 (Chair: Michael Shara) |
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Janusz Kaluzny (1955-2015): career and activities
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Spectroscopic Study of the Low-Mass Eclipsing Binary UV Psc
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Observing Galactic Be/X-ray binaries with the SALT high-resolution spectrograph
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| Janusz Kaluzny, Session 2 (Chair: Marek Sarna) |
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SALT observations of the Be/X-ray binary A0538-66
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A Carbon-rich Mira variable in a globular cluster: A stellar merger
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Target of opportunity observations of an X-ray binary in outburst
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How to best use SALT: maximizing your chances
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| ALMA and Related Science (Chair: Ilani Loubser) |
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Transformational Science with ALMA and Synergies with SALT and SKA
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The RINGS Survey: High-Resolution H-alpha Velocity Fields of Nearby Spiral Galaxies with the SALT Fabry-Perot
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Halpha emission from galaxies at anomalous velocities
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SALT and SUNBIRD: Young massive star clusters and superwinds in strongly star-forming galaxies
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| Star Formation in Galaxies (Chair: Ando Ratsimbazafy) |
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Star Formation Histories of S0 Galaxies
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The importance of mergers to the stellar mass build-up of Brightest Cluster Galaxies
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Constraining the merger history of Luminous Red Galaxies with SDSS and SALT
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Fuelling (and quenching) star formation in Brightest Cluster Galaxies
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| Galaxies (Chair: Patricia Whitelock) |
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Synergies between SALT and Herschel, Euclid and the SKA: strong gravitational lensing and galaxy evolution
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HELP-ing Extragalactic Surveys : The Herschel Extragalactic Legacy Project and the Coming of Age of Multi-Wavelength Astrophysics
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Characterising (U)LIRGs using SALT/RSS
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Age dating Luminous Red Galaxies observed with the Southern African Large Telescope
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| The Variable Universe #1 (Chair: Ted Williams) |
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The Large Synoptic Survey Telescope
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SALT Investigations of Transients
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SALT Spectroscopy of Dark Energy Survey Supernovae and Their Classification
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Multi-wavelength Studies of High Latitude Black Hole X-ray Transients
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| The Variable Universe #2 (Chair: Jack Hughes) |
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Observing optical and very high energy emission from gamma-ray bursts
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Hypermassive Black Hole Shines in the Childhood Universe
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Accretion Dynamics in Pre-Main Sequence Binaries
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Searching for Erupting Dwarf Novae in the LMC
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| The Variable Universe - AGN (Chair: Rosalind Skelton) |
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Obscured Quasars: Finding and Understanding the Most Luminous Active Supermassive Black Holes with SALT
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Southern African Large Telescope spectroscopy of unclassified Fermi-2LAC Active Galactic Nuclei
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Multifrequency observations of the extreme X-ray weak quasar PG0043+039
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Probing the time variability of high velocity outflows in QSOs
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Study of flaring quasars using optical/gamma-ray correlations
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| SALT and The Radio Universe #1 (Chair: Renee Kraan-Korteweg) |
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MeerKAT - an update
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SALT observations of the largest radio galaxies
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Cold HI 21-cm Absorption Line Survey
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| SALT and The Radio Universe #2 (Chair: Michelle Cluver) |
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Looking At the Distant Universe with MeerKAT and SALT
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The MeerKAT Absorption Line Survey: building the dust unbiased quasar sample
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Analysis of SALT Fabry-Perot Medium Resolution Data
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Multiwavelength variability of the radio quasar J2042+7508
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| Galaxy Groups and Clusters (Chair: Richard Britto) |
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The Unveiling of the newly discovered Vela Supercluster
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Investigating the intergalactic medium in galaxy groups
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SALT spectroscopic observations of galaxy clusters detected by ACT and a Type II quasar hosted by a brightest cluster galaxy
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On the Trail of the Most Massive Galaxy Clusters in the Universe
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| Milky Way and Planets (Chair: Simon Jeffrey) |
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Cepheids in the flared outer disk of our Galaxy
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Diffuse Interstellar Bands in Emission
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The Search for Planets around Evolved Binary Stars
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Current and future observations of Near Earth objects with SALT and RSS
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| Stellar Astrophysics #1 (Chair: Vanessa McBride) |
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The disappearing string of pearls: Super Star Clusters in a nuclear star-forming ring of NGC 2328
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Revealing evolved massive stars with Spitzer, WISE and SALT
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Hot Bottom Burning Star in IC1613
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Multi-tomography of polars from SALT spectroscopy
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| Stellar Astrophysics #2 (Chair: Kevin Hainline) |
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On the relationship between circumstellar discs and X-ray outbursts in Be X-ray binaries
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SALT Observations of Hot Subdwarfs and Other Evolved Stars
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High Resolution Spectroscopic Abundance Analysis of Metal-Poor Stars
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Observational Constraints on the Nature of the X-ray bright supergiant B[e] stars LHA 115-S18 & LHA 120- S134
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Spectroscopic Follow-up of the Unusual Nova OGLE-2015-Nova-01
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| SALT's Future (Chair: Eric Wilcots) |
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Machine Learning Classification of Transients
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Searching for Millisecond Pulsar Binaries Among Fermi Sources
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SALT's Venture into Near Infrared Astronomy with RSS-NIR
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The RSS-NIR Detector System Progress
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Conference Summary
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| Poster Presentations |
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Probing accretion in magnetic CVs through rapid photometry with SALTICAM
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Seeing characterization at Sutherland and Adaptive Optics prospects for SALT
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Observational verification of the limb darkening laws in contact binaries
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Starspots on an extremely close binaries: spectroscopy vs continuous photometry
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Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) as probes of Cosmological Parameters
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Observations of PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 around the 2014 periastron passage with SALT
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Constraining the dark matter density in galaxy clusters
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Probing the Structure and Kinematics of Outflows in Episodic Accretion of YSOs
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Accretion processes in cataclysmic variables: Insights from optical transient surveys
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SALT observations of outflows in three supersoft X-ray binaries
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SALT - A Cost Effective Science Machine: Statistical Evaluation of Publications
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Gamma-Ray Bursts and its afterglow modeling
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Stellar Populations in the Dwarf Galaxy NGC59
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The Aid of Optical Studies in Understanding Millisecond Pulsar Binaries
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